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Selected Items on Display at the 2020 NEW YORK ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR Park Avenue Armory March 5–8, 2020 BOOTH C-25
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A Subscriber’s Copy of the
First American Edition of
Blackstone’s Commentaries
in an Original Binding
1. Blackstone, William. Commentaries
on the Laws of England. [Philadelphia]:
Robert Bell, 1771-1772. $12,500.
No 1
Handsome First-Edition Copy
of an Important (And Very Rare)
American Edition of Blackstone
2. Blackstone, Sir William; Tucker, St. George,
Editor. Blackstone’s Commentaries: With Notes
of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the
Federal Government of the United States, And of
the Commonwealth of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1803.
$20,000.
No 2
A Profound Influence
in Pre-Revolutionary America
3. [Care, Henry]; N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653],
Editor. English Liberties, Or The Free‑Born Subject’s
Inheritance. Providence, 1774. Second American
edition, published in the same year as the first
Continental Congress and the Intolerable Acts
(and about a year after the Boston Tea Party).
$6,500.
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First Edition of Holmes’s
Speeches with Interesting Annotations
6. Holmes, Oliver
Wendell. Speeches.
Boston, 1891. The
annotations identify
the people referred
to, all indirectly, in
“Memorial Day,” a
speech about Holmes’s
memories of the Civil
War. $500.
No 6
No 4
The Last Edition of The Federalist
Published in Hamilton’s Lifetime
4. [Hamilton, Alexander]; [Madison, James]; [Jay,
John Jay]. The Federalist, On the New Constitution.
New York, 1802. $12,500.
African-Americans as Citizens and Voters
5. Hancock, John. The Great Question for the
People! Essays on the Elective Franchise: Or, Who
Has the Right to Vote? Philadelphia, 1866. $350.
No 5
No 3
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A Pamphlet on Trade Policy That was
Popular with American Colonial Radicals
7. [Robinson, Matthew, Baron Rokeby]. Con-
siderations on the Measures Carrying on With
Respect to the British Colonies in North America.
New York, 1774. $650.
No 8
No 9
Unofficial Predecessor to Folwell’s Laws
10. [United States]; [Congress]. Acts Passed at the
First [Second] Session of the Congress of the United
States of America Philadelphia, 1793. Complete set.
$2,000.
Handsome First Edition
of the First Substantial Treatise
on the American Constitution
8. Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution
of the United States. Boston, 1833. $8,500.
1721 Compilation of Laws
Concerning Religion and Education
in the English Colonies in America
9. Trott, Nicholas. The Laws of the British Plan-
tations in America, Relating to the Church and the
Clergy, Religion and Learning. London, 1721. $3,500.
No 10
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No 11
The Indispensable Record of the Parson Weems’s Account of
Continental Congress, This Set Includes the Two Cases of Adultery and Murder
Very Rare 1777 Aitken Printing of Volume II 12. Weems, Mason L[ocke]. God’s Revenge Against
11. [United States]; [Continental Congress]. Adultery, Awfully Exemplified in the Following Cases
[Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1783]. of American Crim. Con. I. Philadelphia, 1818. $650.
Philadelphia: Robert Aitken [and others] 1777-
1784. Nine volumes. $20,000.
Details from No 12
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An Important Nineteenth-Century
Pennsylvania Jurist
13. [American School, 19th Century]; [Troubat,
Francis Joseph]. [Portrait of Francis Joseph
Troubat]. Philadelphia?, c. 1837. 29” x 24-1/4”
(canvas size). $5,000.
“His Famous Wig Composed Entirely
of Split Hairs and Adorned with
the Ceremonial Crimson Tape”
14. Robinson, Boardman; [Becker-Rosenthal
Murder Trial]. Mr. Justice Precedent. [New York,
1914]. 21” x 15-1/2” gouache image on 26” x 19-
1/2” sheet, image signed twice and inscribed by
Robinson. Created to illustrate an article that was
in the New York Tribune. $4,500.
One of the Great Scandals
No 13
of the Hanoverian Period
15. [Williams, Charles]; [Clarke, Mary Anne].
Mother Carey’s Chickens. [London], 1808. Hand-
colored etching with etched text, 9-3/4” x 14-1/2”
(measured to plate marks). $750.
No 14 No 15
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Details from No 17
No 16
Amendments to the
Inscribed to British Actress Rosalinde Fuller Massachusetts Constitution:
A Presentation Copy from Joseph Story
16. Darrow, Clarence.
A Persian Pearl and 18. [Massachusetts];
Other Essays. Chicago, [Story, Joseph]. Amend-
1902. $1,850. ments of the Consti-
tution of Massachu-
setts, Proposed by
the Convention of
Signed and Inscribed to Harpo Marx Delegates, Assembled
and His Wife at Boston, On the
Third Wednesday of
17. Frankfurter, Felix. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces.
November, A.D. Eigh-
New York, 1960. $2,000.
teen Hundred and
Twenty. Boston, 1821.
$1,850.
Treatise on Courts Martial Owned
by Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart
19. [Stuart, J.E.B.]; Simmons, Thomas Frederick.
Remarks on the Constitution and Practice of Courts
No 19
Martial. London, 1852. “J.E.B. Stuart./ 1st Cavalry”
in large penciled hand to front free endpaper.
$3,500.
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BINDINGS
A Jesuitical Restatement
of the Corpus Juris Canonici
20. Gasparro, Francesco Maria. Institutionum Juris
Canoninici. Rome, 1702. Contemporary morocco,
gilt frames to boards, gilt spines with raised
bands and lettering, gilt tooling to board edges,
gauffered gilt edges to text blocks, patterned
endpapers. $1,950.
A Jesuitical Restatement of the Institutes
21. Gasparro, Francesco Maria. Institutionum Juris
Civilis. Rome, 1707. Contemporary morocco, gilt
double frames to boards, inner frames with large
fleurons, gilt spines with raised bands and lettering
pieces, gilt tooling to board edges, edges of text
blocks gilt, marbled endpapers. $1,500.
No 20
Early English-Language Edition
of a Landmark in Eighteenth-Century
Political Science
22. Montesquieu, Charles
Louis de Secondat, Baron
de; [Nugent, Thomas,
Translator]. The Spirit of
Laws. Translated from the
French of M. de Secondat.
London, 1773. Recent
period-style calf binding by
Philip Dusel, gilt spine with
raised bands and lettering
pieces, gilt tooling to board
edges, marbled endpapers.
$1,500.
No 21
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BROA DSIDES
Conjugate Broadsides
23. [Death]; [Murder]; [New York]. A Poem of the
Distressing and Afflictive Death of the Rev. Josiah
M. Muspratt, Who Was Killed in an Awful Manner
[Printed above] The Dying Words, Confession, And
Execution of Jesse Strang, For the Murder of John
Whipple. Utica?, NY: 1827.] 20-1/2” x 8-1/2.” $1,750.
Rare Verse Account of One of the
Most Famous American Crimes of the 1830s
24. [Murder]; [White, Joseph]. Murder of Joseph
White.. [Boston?: S.n., 1830]. 10” x 6-1/2”. This
appears to be an unrecorded imprint. $1,250.
(See illustration page 9.)
Offenses Against Public Trade
25. Raine, J[ohn]. Forestalling Ingrossing and Re-
grating. Alnwick, England, 1800. 10-3/4” x 8-3/4.” $850.
(See illustration page 9.)
Colorfully Illustrated Broadside Concerning
a Notable 19th-Century Libel Case
in Salem, Massachusetts
26. [Temperence]; [Cheever, George Barrell].
Deacon Giles’s Distillery. New York, [c. 1865-1867].
14” x 10-1/4.” $1,500.
(See illustration page 9.)
1826 Mexican Broadside
Announcing the Assignments
of the Earliest Circuit Judges
for Texas, California and New Mexico
27. Muzquiz, Melchor. El Ciudadano Melchor
Muzquiz, Coronel de Ejército, Y Gobernador del
Estado Libre de México. [Mexico City]: September
6, 1826. 12” x 8-1/2.” $1,500.
(See illustration page 9.) No 23
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No 24
No 26
No 25
No 27
9CRIMINALS
Confessions of Four Pirates
Who Were Tried Before Joseph Story
30. [Murder]; [Piracy]; [Williams, John (and
Others), Defendants]. Lives and Confessions of
John Williams, Francis Frederick, John P. Rog, And
Peter Peterson, Who Were Tried at the United
States Circuit Court in Boston for Murder & Piracy.
Boston [1819]. $1,750.
Mutiny and Murder on the High Seas,
McDade 679
31. [Trial]; Miller, George, Defendant; Glew,
John, Defendant; Smith, William, Defendant. The
No 28 Jefferson Borden Mutiny: Trial of George Miller, John
A Scottish Guillotine Glew, And William Smith for Murder on the High
28. M’Culloch, William Thompson. History of Seas. Boston, 1876. $450.
the “Maiden” or Scottish Beheading Machine,
With Notices of the Criminals Who Suffered by It.
Edinburgh, 1870. 2 plates. 1 text illustration. $750. Torture of a Female Prisoner in Trinidad
32. [Trial]; Picton, Sir Thomas [1758-1815],
Defendant. The Trial of Governor T. Picton, For
Nearly 15,000 Gathered Inflicting the Torture on Louisa Calderon, A Free
to Witness the Execution Mulatto. London, [1806].
29. [Murder]; [Piracy]; [Tully, Samuel]. The Life of [Bound with] Picton, Sir Thomas. Evidence Taken
Samuel Tully, Who Was Executed at South Boston, at Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, In the Case of
Dec. 10, 1812, For Piracy. Written by Himself. Boston, Luisa Calderon. London, 1806. The frontispiece
1812. $2,500. depicts Calderon undergoing torture. $2,500.
No 32
No 29
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No 33
No 35
Designed to Display the
Corruption of the Irish Nobility Unrecorded Imprint with an Added
Hand-Colored Portrait of the Criminal
33. [Trial]; Taylour, Thomas, Marquess of Headfort,
Defendant. A Report of the Trial on an Action for 35. [Trial]; Turpin, Richard, Defendant; Kyll,
Damages Brought by the Reverend Charles Massy Thomas, Reporter. The Whole Life and Trial at
Against the Most Noble the Marquis of Headfort, Large of the Notorious Highwayman Richard Turpin.
For Criminal Conversation With Plaintiff’s Wife: York, 1739. $1,850.
Damages Laid at £40,000. Philadelphia and New-
York, 1804. $950.
Four Interesting English Cases Tried in 1737,
Three Concerning Soldiers, One a Cattle Thief
Sensational 1825 Murder Trial in Buffalo, N.Y. 36. [Trials]. [Great Britain]. [Three Cases Con-
34. [Trial]; Thayer Brothers. The Life, Trial, cerning Soldiers, One Concerning a Cattle Thief].
Condemnation and Dying Address, Of the Three London, 1737. $950.
Thayers! Who Were Executed for the Murder of
John Love. Buffalo, [1825]. $950.
No 34 No 36
11FREE SPEECH
No 40
A Landmark Case
in the History of the First Amendment
No 37
39. [Trial]; Hamilton, Alex-
Ancient Laws Against ander; Crosswell, Harry,
“Immorality and Prophaneness” Defendant. The Speeches at
Full Length of Mr Van Ness,
37. Disney, John. A View of Ancient Laws, Against
Mr. Caines, the Attorney-
Immorality and Profaneness; Under the Following
General, Mr. Harrison, And
Heads; Lewdness, Profane Swearing, Cursing, And
General Hamilton, In the
Blasphemy; Perjury; Prophanation of Days Devoted
Great Cause of the People,
to Religion; Contempt or Neglect of Divine Service;
Against Harry Croswell, New
Drunkenness; Gaming; Idleness, Vagrancy, And
York:, 1804. $2,500.
Begging; Stage-Plays and Players; And Duelling.
Cambridge, 1729. $2,500.
Two Notable British Trials
for Blasphemy, And Their Context
A Notable Freethinker and Publisher 40. [Trials]; [Freedom of the Press]. The Oracle
of Thomas Paine Reports One of His of Reason: Or, Philosophy Vindicated. Volume 1.
Blasphemy Trials London, 1842. Numbers 1-52 (with Supplements to
38. [Trial]; Carlile, Richard, Defendant and Reporter. Numbers 6 and 52). Complete.
The Report of the Proceedings of the Court of King’s [Bound with] Holyoake, George Jacob,
Bench, In the Guildhall, London, On the 12th, 13th, 14th, Defendant. The Trial of George Jacob Holyoake,
And 15th Days of October, 1819, Being the Mock Trials On an Indictment for Blasphemy, Before Mr. Justice
of Richard Carlile, For Alledged [sic] Blasphemous Erskine, And a Common Jury, At Gloucester, August
Libels, In Publishing Thomas Paine’s Theological the 15th, 1842. London, 1842.
Works and [And] Southwell, Charles, Defendant. Carpenter,
Elihu Palmer’s William, Reporter. The Trial of Charles Southwell,
Principles (Editor of “The Oracle of Reason”), For Blasphemy.
of Nature; London, 1842. $1,950.
Before Lord
Chief Justice Pamphlet Concerning a Notable Nineteenth-
Abbott, And Century Libel Case in Salem, Massachusetts
Special Juries. 41. [Upham, Charles W.]. The Charge of Ignorance
London, 1826. and Misrepresentation Proved Against the Rev.
$750. George B. Cheever. Salem,1833. $750.
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No 44
No 42
First Edition of the First Abridgement The Long Parliament
of the Commentaries Establishes Fundamental English Liberties
42. Blackstone, Sir William; Trusler, John, Editor. A 44. [Great Britain]; [Parliament]. Speeches and
Summary of the Constitutional Law of England, Being Passages of the Great and Happy Parliament, From
an Abridgement of Blackstone’s Commentaries. the Third of November, 1640, To this Instant June,
Dublin, 1790. Reprint of the first edition, London, 1641. Collected into One Volume, And According
1788, the only Irish printing of this book. $750. to the Most Perfect Originalls, Exactly Published.
London, 1641. $1,500.
Also a Profound Influence
in the American Colonies, The Constitutional Danger Posed
One of the Two Editions Owned by Jefferson by a “New Lurking Pretender”
43. [Care, Henry]; N[elson], W[illiam], Editor. 45. [Ridpath, George]. Parliamentary Right Main-
English Liberties, Or the Free‑Born Subject’s tain’d or the Hanover Succession Justify’d. Wherein
Inheritance. [London], 1719. $750. The Hereditary Right to the Crown of England Asserted
&c. Is Consider’d, in III. Parts. [London?], 1714. $950.
No 43
No 45
13I L LUS T R AT E D BOOK S
The Most Lavish Edition
of The Comic Blackstone
46. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott; A’Beckett, Arthur
William, Editor; Furniss, Harry, Illustrator. The
Comic Blackstone. London, 1887. $450.
(See illustration front cover.)
Handsome Copy of a Classic Illustrated
16th-Century Treatise on Criminal Law
47. Damhouder, Josse de. Praxis Rerum
Criminalium. Antwerp, 1570. 70 large woodcuts
in text. 68 depict criminal acts, 2 depict types of
torture. Large armorial woodcuts at beginning
and end of book. $2,500. No 46
A Collection of Amusing
Eighteenth-Century Legal Cases
48. [Estienne, Robert, Compiler]. Causes Amusantes
et Connues. Berlin (i.e. Paris), 1769-1770. $750.
Well-Illustrated Digest of the Military
Law and Practice of the Holy Roman Empire
49. Fronsberger, Leonhardt; [Amman, Jost,
Illustrations]. Von Kayserlichem Kriegßrechten,
Malefitz und Schuldhändlen, Ordnung und Regiment..
Frankfurt, 1565. 6 copperplate folding plates by Jost
Amman. Woodcut text illustrations. $9,500. No 47
(See illustration page 15.)
Illustrated Throughout
with Witty Color Images
50. Hémard, Joseph,
Illustrator. Code Pénal:
Commentaires Images
de Joseph Hémard.
Paris, [c. 1940?]. Pochoir
color text illustrations
throughout. From an
edition limited to 900
copies, this number 293.
$850.
(See illustration page 15.)
No 48
14I L LUS T R AT E D BOOK S
No49
A Witty (And Very French) View
of Family Law: A Copy from an
Edition Limited to 50 Copies in a
Superb Binding and Slip-Case
51. Hémard, Joseph, Illustrator. Code Civil: Livre
Premier, Des Personnes: Titres V. Du Mariage. VI. Du
Divorce. VII. De la Paternité. VIII. De l’Adoption. IX.
De la Puissance Paternelle. X. De la Minorité. XI. De la
Majorité. Paris, [1925]. First edition on Japan paper
with an original unpublished watercolor (aquarelle
originale inédite) by Hémard and an additional set of
Detail from No 50 plates limited to 50 copies, this number 41. $2,500.
A Fine-Press Version of a Law Review
Article on Justice
52. Maurice, John
Morey; Farrell,
Mary, Illustrator. On
Justice. [Spokane,
WA, 2006]. 46 pp.
13 plates. an edition
limited to 250 copies,
this number 8, signed
(and fingerprinted)
by the author and
illustrator. $250.
No 51
15INCUNABULA
Detail from No 53
Verse Epitome of a Classic Penitential Manual
53. [Adam, Magister]; [Penaforte, Raymond of.
Summula Sacramentorum Raymundi de Pennaforte No 54
Metrificata. Cologne, 1500]. $9,500.
A Fundamental Treatise on Family Relations
54. Andrea, Giovanni d.’ [Super Arboribus Consan-
guinitatis et Affinitatis et Cognationis Spiritualis].
[Nuremberg, 1483]. $8,500.
First Edition of a Fifteenth-Century
Guide to Legal Study
55. Canis, Johannes Jacobus. [De Modo Studendi in
Utroque Iure]. [Padua, 1476]. $16,500.
No 55
The Last Incunable Imprint
of Cipolla’s “Legal Cautions”
Concerning Servitudes and Real Property
56. Cipolla, Bartolomeo. Caut-
elae Iuris. [Strasbourg, 1490].
$15,000.
No 56
16INCUNABULA
Detail from No 57
No 58
Incunable Editions 1482 Koberger Imprint of the Clementinae
of Two Primary Volumes of Canon Law with a Handsome Watercolor Vignette
of the Pope with Prelates and Jurists
57. Clement V, Pope; [d’Andrea, Giovanni],
Glosses. [Constitutiones, Cum Apparatu Johannes 58. Clement V, Pope; d’Andrea, Giovanni, Glosses.
Andreae]. [Nuremberg, 1482]. [Constitutiones (Cum Apparatu Joannis Andreae)].
[Bound with] Boniface VIII, Pope. [d’Andrea, Giovanni], [Nuremberg, 1482]. $12,500.
Glosses. [Liber Sextus Decretalium, Cum Apparatu
Johannes Andreae]. [Nuremberg, 1482]. $20,000. 1483 Printing of an Important Digest
of Canon Law with a Tract
on Jewish Moneylenders,
A Copy with Notably Fine Penwork
59. De Ausmo (Osimo), Nicolaus; [Bartholomew,
Of San Concordio]; De Nevo (Nievo), Alexander;
Astesanus of Asti. [Supplementum Summae
Pisanellae; Consilia Contra Judaeos Foenerates;
Canones Poenitentiales]. [Venice, 1482]. $18,000.
No 57
Detail from No 61
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No 60
1494 Edition of a Distinguished
Commentary on Canon Law
in the Corpus Juris Canonici
60. Koelner de Vanckel, Johannes. Summarium
Textuale et Conclusiones Super Sextum et
Clementinas [et Decretales Extravagantes Johannis
XXII]. [(Cologne), 1494]. $30,000.
No 61
A Powerful Opponent of Martin Luther
61. Mazzolini, Silverstro, Da Prierio. Compendium
in Johannem Capreolum cum Additionibus.
[Cremona, 1497]. $10,000.
No 59
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No 62
Two Incunable Imprints of Two Important
Commentaries on Canon Law
62. Parmensis, Bernardus. [Casus Longi Super
Quinque Libros Decretalium]. [Strasbourg, 1498].
[Bound with] Regnierus. [Casus Longi Super Sextum
Librum Decretalium; Casus Longi Clementinarum].
[Strasbourg, 1496]. $15,000.
The Pearls of the Decretals
63. [Polonus, Martinus]. Margarita Decreti Seu
Tabula Martiniana. [Strasbourg, 1493]. $13,500. No 63
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A Fifteenth-Century Legal Reference Library
64. Schussenried, Werner von [et al.]. Modus
Legendi Abbreviaturas in Utroq[ue] Iure, Sive
Processus Iuris. [Strasbourg, 1490].
[Bound with] Guido de Cumis. Casus Longi Super
Institutis. [Strasbourg, about 1488-1493]. $12,000.
Details from No 64
One of the Great Fifteenth-Century
Manuals for Confessors
65. [Trovamala de Salis, Battista]. [Summa Casuum
Conscientiae (Second Version known as Rosella
Casuum)]. [Venice, 1499]. $5,000.
No 65
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No 66
Commentaries on the Decretals of Gregory IX
Concerning Marriage and Criminal Procedure
by the “Lamp of the Law”
66. Tudeschis, Niccolo de, Archbishop (Abbas
Panoramitanus). [Lectura Super V Libris
Decretalium]. [Basel, 1480‑1481]. Part VI (of VI);
issued in six parts, each complete in itself. Our
part contains the portions concerning marriage
and criminal procedure. $25,000.
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No 69
No 67
The First London Edition First Edition of Coke’s
of Blackstone’s Commentaries Landmark Commentary on Magna Carta
and “English Liberties”
67. Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the
Laws of England. In Four Books. London, 1774. 69. Coke, Sir Edward. The Second Part of the
$3,000. Institutes of the Lawes of England. Containing the
Exposition of Many Ancient, And Other Statutes.
London,1642. [xii], 745, [3] pp. $5,000.
The First Critical Edition of Magna Carta
68. Blackstone, Sir William. The Great Charter
and Charter of the Forest, With Other Authentic First American Edition of a Landmark,
Instruments: To Which is Prefixed an Introductory PMM-Listed Work in the Development of
Discourse, Containing the History of the Charters. Utilitarian, Socialist and Anarchist Doctrine
Oxford, 1759. $6,000.
70. Godwin, William. An Enquiry Concerning
Political Justice, And its Influence on General Virtue
and Happiness. First American Edition from the
Second
London
Edition
Corrected.
Philadel-
phia, 1796.
$1,750.
Details from No 68
No 70
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from
No 73
Handsome Copy of an Important Early
English Translation of De Jure Belli ac Pacis
71. Grotius, Hugo. [Morrice, John, Translator and
Editor]. Of the Rights of War and Peace, In Three
Volumes. London, 1715. $3,500. 1576 Printing of Magna Carta
and Later Statutes in a
First Edition, First Issue, Of The Common Law Contemporary Calf Binding
72. Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Common Law. with Contemporary Annotations
Boston, 1881. Original maroon pebbled cloth, blind
double frames to boards, gilt title to spine, triple 73. [Magna Carta]. Magna Charta, Cum Statutis.
gilt rules at spine ends, two-line printer statement [London, 1576]. $7,500.
at foot of the title page, verso, reading “University
Press:/ John Wilson and Son, Cambridge and a one-
line statement to foot of p. 422 reading “University
Press: John Wilson & Son, Cambridge.” $1,000.
No 71
No 72
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No 76
First Edition of Pufendorf ’s Magnum Opus
75. Pufendorf, Samuel. De Jure Naturae et Gentium
Libro Octo. Lund, 1672. $9,500.
Detail from No 74
The First British Book Printed in Gold, First Report of the Landmark
“The Most Magnificent of All Editions” Dartmouth College Case
According to Lowndes
76. [Trial]; [Dartmouth College Case]; Farrar,
74. [Magna Carta]; [Whittaker, John, Publisher]. Timothy, Reporter. Report of the Case of the
Magna Carta. London, 1816. Folio (17” x 14”). Trustees of Dartmouth College Against William H.
$10,000. Woodward. Portsmouth [NH], [1819]. $1,500.
No 75
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No 78
Sixteenth-Century Editions The Great Vocabularius: A Standard
of Three Classic Legal Reference Works Early-Modern Law Dictionary
77. Haloander, Gregor, Editor; [Wernherus of 79. Jodocus of Erfurt, Attributed. Vocabularius
Schussenried]; [Azo, Portius]. Modus Legendi Utriusque Iuris. Lyon, 1525. $6,500.
Abbreviaturas. Cologne, 1577. $1,500.
First Edition of the Standard English Handsome Copy of a Notable
Law Dictionary of the Eighteenth Century Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
78. Jacob, Giles. A New Law-Dictionary. London, 80. Vicat, B[eat]-Phil[ippe], Compiler; [Ferrigno,
1729. $1,750. Pasquale (fl. 1760), Editor]. Vocabularium Juris
Utriusque. Naples, 1760. $850.
No 80
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A Classic Satire of Eighteenth-Century
English Lawyers and Politicians
81. [Arbuthnot, John]; [Swift, Jonathan]. Law is a
Bottomless-Pit. London:, 1712.
[Bound with] John Bull in His Senses: Being the
Second Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. London, 1712.
[And] John Bull Still in His
Senses: Being the Third Part
of Law is a Bottomless Pit.
London, 1712.
[And] Lewis Baboon Turned
Honest, And John Bull
Politician. Being The Fourth No 84
Part of Law is a Bottomless-
Pit. London, 1712.
[And] An Appendix to John
Bull Still in His Senses: Or,
Law is a Bottomless-Pit.
London, 1712. $1,750.
Three Satirical Views of Legal Practice
82. Holtermann, Arnold Moriz. De Nequitia
Advocatorum. [Germany], 1682. 210 pp. Added
double folded copperplate title page.
[Bound with] Fritsch, Ahasver. In Nahmen Jesu! Der
Beschämte Geschenck-Fresser: Nebst einer Treuherzigen
Warnung. Jena, 1684. Double folded title page. No 83 No 85
[And] Wiederholdt, Johann Ludwig. Reprae-
sentatio Judicis Muneribus Ac Donis Corrupti. The Litigant Says “Adieu” to His Money
Wetzlar, c.1725. Double folded title page. $2,500. 83. [Legal Satire]; [France]. L’Adieu du Plaideur a
son Argent. [Paris, 1624]. $850.
The Merry Lawyer
84. [Rottmann, Friedrich J.]. Der Lustige Jurist.
Bremen, 1730. Questions and answers, many of a
sexual nature, couched in legalese, and some in verse,
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